Archive for the 'Speaking Spiritually' Category

A Different Perspective - Critique within the emerging church

I really like Alan Hartung’s post where he Critiques the emerging church - no wait a moment - he’s not having a go at ‘THE’ emerging church as a movement, he’s doing the responsible thing and writing on a more personal level. I think its healthy for us to be doing this type of reflecting […]

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Emerging church in multicultural society

Interesting post over at under the acacias on Emerging church in multicultural society 2

‘How do we do church in a way that is relevant to the cultural identities of all the different groups in our society? How can we be church in a way that will be outreach-orientated, permitting people to meet God within their […]

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Comparison Chart: Emergent vs Bible

Spotted this Chart that Compares Emergent churches to the Bible

To be honest I’m not sure I have the brain capacity to really critique this critique on the Emerging Church at the moment but my initial reaction to the comparison is that it is a gross generalization and that many of the comparisons and critique could […]

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Converted a little each Day

Earlier I wrote a bit about my faith journey and mentioned being ‘a little bit converted most days’ rather than having a big moment in my life when it all happened.

Kitty asked for further unpacking of that statement: ‘What you said about getting converted most days sounds very interesting. Can you unpack that a […]

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Is Emerging Church Blogging talking about ourselves to ourselves?

Kellie (who has been most helpful in getting this blogathon running smoothly) asks:

‘Is blogging about emerging church just doing more of the same - talking about ourselves to ourselves? I think there’s more to it than that, but people challenge me with this question, so i’d be interested in your thoughts.’

Good question Kellie and one […]

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Journey of Faith

Maryam (who has just launched a beautiful new site design) has kindly commissioned a post from me. She’s promised $50 if I write a post on the beginning of my journey of faith.

Well this could be a little longer than a 15 minute post - I might work on it for a while between posting […]

Thursday, January 20th, 2005